Thanks. A lot of file IO goes on with this app. There are a couple of files in particular that are held open for the life of the app and written to sporadically. I am thinking that having the same code as two web apps would lead to those files getting clobbered. Is there a way to make the 'same appbase with 2 hosts' version work? On Feb 19, 2013 5:57 PM, "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Andrew Winter wrote: > >> I work on an intranet type application. While on the local network calls >> are made to regular http and authentication is not allowed due to a large >> number of established services that call the server without providing >> authentication. However, the server accepts calls from the outside over >> SSL (regular http port is blocked by firewall). In these cases the use of >> basic authentication is required. I don't see a way to have work like >> this. With our older setup we used Apache as a front end and had a >> virtual >> host file for each port. One used https and basic auth and the other >> didn't. Both pointed to the same web app. Now I must send calls directly >> to Tomcat as we are implementing asynchronous requests. What can I do >> here? >> >> > Do the same as under httpd (except one thing) : use separate <Host>'s > within the Tomcat configuration (same as <VirtualHost> under Apache). > Deploy a separate copy of your webapps within each <Host>'s "appBase". In > one <Host>, you protect them via Basic Auth, in the other <Host> you do not. > > Under Tomcat, it is not recommended to use the same "appBase" (roughly the > same > as Apache's "DocumentRoot") for two separate <Host>'s, because this > creates problems of double deployment etc. So use two separate sets of > webapps. They are still the same webapp, just deployed twice, in different > locations. Is that a problem for you ? > > Roughly (check the proper syntax on tomcat.apache.org) : > > server.xml : > > .... > > <Engine ...> > > <Host name="host1.company.com" appBase="/some/dir/number1" ..> > ... > </Host> > > <Host name="host2.company.com" appBase="/some/dir/number2" ..> > ... > </Host> > > ... > > /some/dir/number1 > |- ROOT/ > |- webapp1 > |- webapp2 > > /some/dir/number2 > |- ROOT/ > |- webapp1 > |- webapp2 > > the 2 "webapp1" are the same (same code, same files,..) (*) > the 2 "webapp2" are the same > > (*) actually, almost the same, since their WEB-INF/web.xml will be > different : one has to be accessed via HTTPS and use Basic Auth, the other > one not. > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
